Browsing by Subject "Irish language"
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Building a language community through radio in the age of social media: the case of Raidió na Life
(Intellect, 2020-04-01)This paper investigates the motivations of volunteers in participating in broadcasting on a community radio station in the age of social media. The station chosen broadcasts in Irish, a minority language in Ireland, although ... -
Cultural glocalization or resistance? Interrogating the production of YouTube videos at an Irish summer college through practice-based research
(2017-03)This thesis includes the film Dúshlán Lurgan/The Lurgan Challenge and a written exegesis which reflects on the film's 'generative performance'. The film asks if making Irish-language versions of music videos in English at ... -
Discussion paper on Irish language radio broadcasting
(NUI Galway and Mary Immaculate College, UL, 2018-01)This discussion paper presents the findings of the first phase of an ongoing study into the use of Irish language on the country s radio stations, other than those that broadcast exclusively in Irish. Under broadcasting ... -
Foinn, focail, féiniúlachtaí: claochlú cultúir sa Chlár 1850-1950
(2017-09-27)Breathnaíonn an tráchtas seo ar na slite ina ndearna pobal iarthar an Chláir ionramháil ar fhoinn agus ar fhocail i dtraidisiún na hamhránaíochta, chun a bhféiniúlacht Éireannach féin a chur in iúl, le linn na tréimhse ... -
The Gaelic Undertow: Seán Ó hEochaidh's field trip to the Bluestacks in 1947
(Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2013)A discussion of perspectives by Seán Ó hEochaidh in life in the Bluestack Mountains, Co. Donegal, in the mid-twentieth century. -
IRIS: English-Irish machine translation system
(European Language Resources Association, 2016-05-23)We describe IRIS, a statistical machine translation (SMT) system for translating from English into Irish and vice versa. Since Irish is considered an under-resourced language with a limited amount of machine-readable text, ... -
The Irish language in County Meath, 1700-1900
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Leathscéal ag na Mná – An greann agus an inscne i scéal le Bab Feiritéar / Humor and gender in ‘The Woman’s Excuse’ as told by Bab Feiritéar
(2016)Discussion of the interplay of gender in humour in a telling of the tale ATU 'The Enchanted Pear Tree' by the Kerry storyteller Cáit (An Bhab) Feiritéar. -
Léamh iarchoilíneach ar shaothair le Cathal Ó Sándair
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-29)Chuir mé romham sa tráchtas seo staidéar a dhéanamh ar theoiricí iarchoilíneacha i litríocht Ghaeilge na n-óg agus na teoiricí sin a thagairt do shaothar Chathail Uí Shándair, an tsraith Réics Carló agus Réamonn Óg go ... -
Logainmneacha Mhagh Loirg agus Uachtar Thíre, Contae Ros Comáin: Anailís ar ainmneacha bhailte fearainn na seandúichí sin
(2013-02-18)Déantar grinn-anailís sa tráchtas seo ar logainmneacha laistigh de bharúntacht Mhainistir na Búille i dtuaisceart Chontae Ros Comáin. Aithnítear na dúichí stairiúla Magh Loirg, Uachtar Thíre agus Tír Thuathail leis an ... -
National identity and belonging among gay ‘new speakers’ of Irish
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2019-03)New speakers refer to people who use a language regularly but are not traditional native speakers of that language. Although this discussion has been going on for some time in other sub-disciplines of linguistics, it ... -
New speakers of Irish and identities
(Routledge, 2020-03-03)This chapter examines the links between the Irish language and identity in the discourses of new speakers. Despite the strong historical association of Irish with national ethnocultural identity, the chapter identifies a ... -
‘New speakers’ of Irish in the United States: practices and motivations
(De Gruyter, 2015-05-28)This paper examines the experiences and motivations of 'new speakers' of Irish in the United States. 'New speakers' of Irish refer to those whose first language is not Irish but who use the language regularly and fluently. ... -
‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life
(Routledge, 2021-07-19)This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles, Raidió na Life can be ... -
Plean teanga chathair na Gaillimhe 2020 - 2026
(Gaillimh le Gaeilge, 2021-06-30)Plean Teanga do Chathair na Gaillimhe arna ullmhú faoi Acht na Gaeltachta 2012/Irish Language Plan for Galway City as prepared under the Gaeltacht Act 2012. -
Private sentiment and public issues Irish medium education and complex linguistic and political Identification
(Waxman, 2012)Is it possible to construct a non-essentialist politics of place? This is a central question explored in this chapter. The empirical focus of the chapter is the cultural politics of language surrounding the Irish-medium ... -
The role of emotions and positionality in the trajectories of ‘new speakers’ of Irish
(SAGE Publications, 2017-07-28)Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the emotional experiences and positionality of new speakers of Irish, fluent and regular speakers who were not raised with ...